One Less Thing to Worry About: Asteroids

Great news, everybody! We're almost definitely not all going to be wiped off the face of the Earth by a giant rock careening through space, thanks to the United Nations. USA Today, tell us how we're not going to die:

The General Assembly last week gave the green light to an asteroid defense plan drawn up by the former astronauts at the Association of Space Explorers, Scientific American reports. The plan calls for member nations to join forces in an "International Asteroid Warning Group" committed to sounding the alarm if a dangerous rock is spotted. A spacecraft would then be launched to knock the asteroid off course.

Not quite ready to trust the UN with this one? Worried about their record with managing relatively smaller crises? Here's our advice: relax, and enjoy the new age of one less existential threat (and if we're wrong, well, we are all gone anyway). And feel free to focus your worries on the following things:

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